New York, NY: Little & Brown (2000)

Greeted with a torrent of excited praise, this collection brings together the best -- and best-loved -- work by one of the finest storytellers in modern southern literature.

Washington, DC: Counterpoint (2001)

From one of America's premier fiction authors--a writer ahead of his time--comes a sampling of the intimate, funny, and odd stories he has written over two decades about the frailties of relationships and the ways we look at each other when we mean things we cannot bring ourselves to say.

New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000)

Fine in dust jacket.

A new collection of novellas about wild men and civilization is offered by one of the major American writers of our time. These are stories of humans and beasts, of men driven crazy by longing, and of men who dream they are becoming bears. Infused with Harrison's sly humor and quiet wisdom, this book is a resonant journey through the landscape of masculinity from a writer in his prime.

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New York, NY: Avon Books (2000)

Set in the violent Kansas-Missouri border conflict of the Civil War, this novel, based on the brutal exploits of William "Bloody Bill" Anderson, follows the Kansas "redlegs" and the Missouri "bushwackers" as they wage guerrilla warfare across the territories.

New York, NY: Viking (2000)

Breathtaking in its sensuous originality and metaphoric power, The Lake is the story of Zach Brannagan, a graduate student of philosophy in the midst of a nervous breakdown. He finds himself in the care of Michael Lazar, a psychiatrist who coaxes Zach to health with contraband delicacies from his wife's kitchen and a homespun, probing intelligence. Lazar propels Zach on a cross-country journey to unravel the mysteries of his bloodlines that instead lead him to The Lake, an orphanage in the dark heart of the Louisiana wilderness, and to its proprietor Anna Beauchamp and her most precious charge, the mysterious and mute boy, Samuel. Haunting and sublime, The Lake examines the relationship between absurdity and sanity, poetry and philosophy in rich, muscular, and masterful prose.

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (2000)

Earl Swagger is tough as hell -- but even tough guys have their secrets. Haunted by the brutal campaigns of the Pacific and plagued by the memory of his abusive father, Earl is a courageous lawman of absolute integrity -- and overwhelming melancholy. Now he's about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is the summer of 1946, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good, and nowhere is this more true than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the reigning capital of corruption. When the DA vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the show. Caught between his duty and the emerging truth about his own father, can he survive another war with his body and soul intact?

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New York, NY: Little Brown (2000)

New and familiar characters mix, match, and clash in Gilchrist's most inventive collection of stories since "Victory Over Japan."

New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000)

Fine in dust jacket.

Compared by critics to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, Jeffrey Lent's In the Fall is the most stunning debut to come along in years. Ambitious in scope and passionately executed, this epic novel is the rarest of things: a truly moving, emotionally honest, and intellectually satisfying American family saga. In the twilight of the Civil War, Leah, an escaped slave, discovers Norman Pelham, a wounded Union soldier who lies dying on a battlefield outside Richmond. After she nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family farm in Vermont as his wife, and they begin a family. Now the mother of three, and, however begrudgingly, accepted in the community, Leah travels back to the South of her birth and returns with a secret that threatens to destroy what she and Norman have created. Her son Jamie, passing for white, escapes his legacy and enters a world of petty boot-legging, achieving a kind of respectability in the Prohibition era, but also suffering wrenching losses. At the eve of the Great Depression his son, Foster, retraces the path taken by his grandmother and finally confronts the secret exposed by an unknown white uncle, the legacy of slavery, and the painful intricacies of race.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (2000)

Near fine in dust jacket.

A beautiful, naive, and good-hearted woman, Fay is fleeing home and her father's sexual advances, only to encounter a series of men all too willing to take care of her. As she makes her way from the woods just north of Oxford to the beaches of Biloxi, leaving bodies in her wake, Fay emerges as one of the most captivating heroines in recent fiction -- an innocent beauty with a sure-fire instinct for survival.

New York: Doubleday (2000)

They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich—very fast.

And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam—while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. Because they’ve just found the perfect victim.

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New York, NY: Scribner (2000)

A sequel to the phenomenally successful Angela's Ashes picks up the sometimes harrowing tale of McCourt's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to America, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life.

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (2000)

Psychologist Aaron Matthews once used his talent to talk anyone into doing anything to help people. Now he's using it in a deadly scheme of revenge. His target is former trial lawyer Tate Collier. Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance--which for Tate is his teenage daughter, Megan. When Megan disappears, the sins of Tate's past come back to haunt him.